Orwell’s “1984” and Trump’s America February 1, 2017 by Fulcrum I have, I’m afraid, a terrible confession to make: I have never been a huge fan of George Orwell’s “1984.” It always seemed, in its extrapolations from present to future, too pat, a little lacking in the imaginative extrapolations we want from dystopian literature. Adam Gopnik New Yorker January 27 2017 FulcrumShareTweetShare